I know the dem party has to be a big tent, but that doesn't make corporate conservative

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30. You mistake rhetoric for intent.

His behavior tells the tale. He lied during the campaign and said that he would submit a budget that included Medicaid expansion. That would have been a concrete demonstration of his seriousness on the issue. He has completely backtracked on that.

The argument will be about helplessness again, as it always is. Why bother to put it in the budget, if Republicans won't pass it?

This is the Third Way con game, and we've seen it before. Obama campaigned passionately for a public option, but once the actual insurance company negotiations were underway, he never mentioned it again and quietly dropped it in a backroom deal...even though and probably *because* polls showed great public support that could have been mobilized to pressure Republicans to accept it.

Once again, a Third Way politician talked specifically about what he would *do* to push forward a progressive policy, but then changed his mind once in office. Now we face a drawn-out Kabuki of PR legislative negotiations in which the Republicans will have the upper hand, and that the papers, and McAuliffe's own choices about his budget, are already saying will go nowhere.